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12 ¶ Now these are the kings of the land which the sons of Israel smote and possessed their land on the other side of the Jordan toward the rising of the sun from the river Arnon unto Mount Hermon and all the plain on the east:

² Sihon, king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and from the midst of the river and from half of Gilead, even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the sons of Ammon,

³ and from the plain to the sea of Chinneroth on the east and unto the sea of the plain, the salt sea on the east, by the way to Bethjeshimoth, and from the Negev, under Ashdothpisgah.

⁴ And the borders of Og, king of Bashan, who was of the remnant of the Rephaim, that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,

⁵ and reigned in Mount Hermon and in Salcah and in all Bashan unto the borders of the Geshur and Maachath and half of Gilead, the border of Sihon, king of Heshbon.

⁶ These did Moses, the slave of the LORD, and the sons of Israel smite; and Moses, the slave of the LORD, gave that land in possession unto the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half tribe of Manasseh.

⁷ ¶ And these are the kings of the land which Joshua and the sons of Israel smote on this side of the Jordan on the west from Baalgad in the plains of Lebanon even unto Mount Halak that goes up to Seir, which Joshua gave unto the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions,

⁸ in the mountains and in the valleys and in the plains and in the springs and in the wilderness and towards the Negev: the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite,

⁹ the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, another;

¹⁰ the king of Jerusalem, another; the king of Hebron, another;

¹¹ the king of Jarmuth, another; the king of Lachish, another;

¹² the king of Eglon, another; the king of Gezer, another;

¹³ the king of Debir, another; the king of Geder, another;

¹⁴ the king of Hormah, another; the king of Arad, another;

¹⁵ the king of Libnah, another; the king of Adullam, another;

¹⁶ the king of Makkedah, another; the king of Bethel, another;

¹⁷ the king of Tappuah, another; the king of Hepher, another;

¹⁸ the king of Aphek, another; the king of Lasharon, another;

¹⁹ the king of Madon, another; the king of Hazor, another;

²⁰ the king of Shimronmeron (Samaria), another; the king of Achshaph, another;

²¹ the king of Taanach, another; the king of Megiddo, another;

²² the king of Kedesh, another; the king of Jokneam of Carmel, another;

²³ the king of Dor in the province of Dor, another; the king of the Gentiles in Gilgal, another;

²⁴ the king of Tirzah, another; thirty-one kings in all.

13 ¶ Now when Joshua was old and advanced in years, the LORD said unto him, Thou art old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land to be possessed.

² This is the land that yet remains: all the borders of the Philistines and all Geshuri

³ from the Nile, which is before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted among the Canaanites; five cardinals of the Philistines; the Gazathites and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites, also the Avites;

⁴ towards the Negev all the land of the Canaanites and Mearah that is beside those of Sidon unto Aphek to the border of the Amorite;

⁵ and the land of the Giblites and all Lebanon toward the sunrising, from Baalgad at the root of Mount Hermon unto the entering into Hamath.

⁶ All the inhabitants of the mountains from Lebanon unto the hot springs and all the Sidonians, them will I drive out from before the sons of Israel; only thou shalt divide the country by lot unto the Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded thee.

⁷ ¶ Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto the nine tribes and the half tribe of Manasseh,

⁸ for the other half received their inheritance with the Reubenites and the Gadites, which Moses gave them of the other side of the Jordan eastward, according as Moses the slave of the LORD gave them;

⁹ from Aroer, that is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river and all the plain of Medeba unto Dibon;

¹⁰ and all the cities of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, unto the borders of the sons of Ammon;

¹¹ and Gilead and the borders of the Geshur and Maachath and all Mount Hermon and all Bashan unto Salcah;

¹² all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the Rephaim, for these did Moses smite and cast them out of the land.

¹³ Nevertheless, the sons of Israel did not expel those of Geshur and Maachath, but Geshur {Heb. the proud beholder} and Maachath {Heb. the oppressor} dwell among the Israelites until this day.

¹⁴ But unto the tribe of Levi he gave no inheritance; the sacrifices on fire of the LORD God of Israel are their inheritance, as he said unto them.

¹⁵ And Moses gave unto the tribe of the sons of Reuben according to their families,

¹⁶ and their border was from Aroer, that is on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river and all the plain until Medeba,

¹⁷ Heshbon and all her cities that are in the plain, Dibon, and Bamothbaal and Bethbaalmeon,

¹⁸ and Jahazah and Kedemoth and Mephaath,

¹⁹ and Kirjathaim and Sibmah and Zarethshahar in the mount of the valley, {Emec}

²⁰ and Bethpeor and Ashdothpisgah and Bethjeshimoth,

²¹ and all the cities of the plain and all the kingdom of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses smote with the princes of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur and Hur and Reba, who were princes of Sihon, dwelling in the country.

²² Balaam also, the son of Beor, the diviner, did the sons of Israel slay with the sword among those that were slain by them.

²³ And the border of the sons of Reuben was the Jordan and the border thereof. This was the inheritance of the sons of Reuben according to their families, these cities with their villages.

²⁴ Moses likewise gave unto the tribe of Gad, to the sons of Gad according to their families.

²⁵ And their border was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead and half of the land of the sons of Ammon, unto Aroer that is before Rabbah,

²⁶ and from Heshbon unto Ramathmizpeh, and Betonim, and from Mahanaim unto the border of Debir,

²⁷ and the valley of Betharam and Bethnimrah and Succoth and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon, king of Heshbon, the Jordan and its border, even unto the edge of the sea of Chinnereth on the other side of the Jordan eastward.

²⁸ This is the inheritance of the sons of Gad according to their families, these cities with their villages.

²⁹ And Moses also gave unto the half tribe of Manasseh, and it belonged to the half tribe of the sons of Manasseh according to their families.

³⁰ Their border was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities.

³¹ And half of Gilead and Ashtaroth and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were given to the sons of Machir, the son of Manasseh, even to one half of the sons of Machir, according to their families.

³² This is what Moses distributed in inheritance in the plains of Moab, on the other side of the Jordan of Jericho, eastward.

³³ But to the tribe of Levi Moses did not give any inheritance; the LORD God of Israel is their inheritance, as he said unto them.

14 ¶ This is the inheritance of the sons of Israel in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest and Joshua, the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the sons of Israel, distributed unto them.

² Their inheritance was by lot, as the LORD had commanded by the hand of Moses, to be given to the nine tribes and to the half tribe.

³ For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and half a tribe on the other side of the Jordan, but unto the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.

⁴ For the sons of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim, and they gave no part unto the Levites in the land except cities to dwell in with their suburbs for their livestock and for their substance.

⁵ As the LORD had commanded Moses, so the sons of Israel did regarding the dividing of the land.

⁶ ¶ Then the sons of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal, and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the LORD said unto Moses, the man of God, concerning me and thee in Kadeshbarnea.

⁷ I was forty years old when Moses, the slave of the LORD, sent me from Kadeshbarnea to spy out the land, and I brought him word again as it was in my heart,

⁸ but my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt; but I entirely followed the LORD my God.

⁹ And Moses swore on that day, saying, Surely the land on which thy feet have trodden shall be thy inheritance and thy sons’ for ever because thou hast entirely followed the LORD my God.

¹⁰ And now, behold, the LORD has caused me to live, as he said, these forty-five years from the time that the LORD spoke these words unto Moses, while Israel has walked in the wilderness; and now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.

¹¹ As yet I am as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me; as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war and to go out and to come in.

¹² Now, therefore, give me this mountain, of which the LORD spoke in that day; for thou didst hear in that day how the Anakims were there and that the cities were great and strong; peradventure, the LORD will be with me, and I shall drive them out, as the LORD said.

¹³ Then Joshua blessed him and gave unto Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, Hebron as inheritance.

¹⁴ Hebron, therefore, became the inheritance of Caleb, the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, unto this day because he entirely followed the LORD God of Israel.

¹⁵ And the name of Hebron before was Kirjatharba; Arba had been a great man among the Anakims. And the land had rest from war.

15 ¶ This then was the lot of the tribe of the sons of Judah by their families: next to the border of Edom, of the wilderness of Zin towards the Negev on the south side.

² And their border on the side of the Negev was from the shore of the salt sea from the bay that looks toward the Negev;

³ and it went out towards the Negev to the ascent to Acrabbim passing unto Zin and ascending up by the Negev unto Kadeshbarnea past Hezron and going up by Adar, it went around to Karkaa,

⁴ from there it passed toward Azmon and went out unto the river of Egypt, and this border goes out to the western sea. This shall be your border of the Negev.

⁵ And the east border is the salt sea, even unto the end of the Jordan. And the border in the north quarter, from the bay of the sea, from the end of the Jordan,

⁶ and this border goes up to Bethhogla and passes along by the north of Betharabah, and from here this border goes up to the stone of Bohan, the son of Reuben.

⁷ And this border goes back up to Debir from the valley of Achor and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, that is before the ascent to Adummim, which is towards the Negev of the river, and this border passes the waters of Enshemesh and comes out at the fount of Rogel;

⁸ and this border goes up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto the side of the Jebusite towards the Negev; this is Jerusalem. Then this border goes up to the top of the mountain that is before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the end of the valley of the giants northward;

⁹ and this border comes around from the top of the mountain unto the fountain of the water of Nephtoah and goes out to the cities of Mount Ephron; and the border goes around to Baalah, which is Kirjathjearim.

¹⁰ After this, the border turns from Baalah westward unto Mount Seir and passes to the side of Mount Jearim, which is Chesalon, on the north side, and descends to Bethshemesh and passes on to Timnah.

¹¹ Then this border goes out to the side of Ekron northward; and the same border comes around to Shicron and passes by Mount Baalah and goes out to Jabneel; and this border comes out to the sea.

¹² And the west border is the great sea. This is the border of the sons of Judah round about according to their families.

¹³ ¶ And unto Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, he gave a part among the sons of Judah, according to the commandment of the LORD to Joshua, even the city of Arba, the father of Anak, which city is Hebron.

¹⁴ And Caleb drove from there the three sons of Anak, Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai, the sons of Anak.

¹⁵ From there he went up to the inhabitants of Debir, and the name of Debir before was Kirjathsepher.

¹⁶ And Caleb said, He that smites Kirjathsepher and takes it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.

¹⁷ And Othniel, the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it; and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.

¹⁸ And it came to pass when he was taking her, he persuaded her to ask of her father for land to cultivate. Then she lighted off her ass, and Caleb said unto her, What wouldest thou?

¹⁹ And she answered, Give me a blessing, for thou hast given me a dry land; give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

²⁰ ¶ This is the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Judah according to their families.

²¹ And these were the cities in the border of the tribe of the sons of Judah towards the border of Edom towards the Negev: Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur,

²² Kinah, Dimonah, Adadah,

²³ Kedesh, Hazor, Ithnan,

²⁴ Ziph, Telem, Bealoth,

²⁵ Hazorhadattah, Keriothhezron, which is Hazor,

²⁶ Amam, Shema, Moladah,

²⁷ Hazargaddah, Heshmon, Bethpalet,

²⁸ Hazarshual, Beersheba, Bizjothjah,

²⁹ Baalah, Iim, Azem,

³⁰ Eltolad, Chesil, Hormah,

³¹ Ziklag, Madmannah, Sansannah,

³² Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, Rimmon: twenty-nine cities in all, with their villages.

³³ And in the plains, Eshtaol, Zoreah, Ashnah,

³⁴ Zanoah, Engannim, Tappuah, Enam,

³⁵ Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, Azekah,

³⁶ Sharaim, Adithaim, Gederah, Gederothaim: fourteen cities with their villages.

³⁷ Zenan, Hadashah, Migdalgad,

³⁸ Dilean, Mizpeh, Joktheel,

³⁹ Lachish, Bozkath, Eglon,

⁴⁰ Cabbon, Lahmam, Kithlish,

⁴¹ Gederoth, Bethdagon, Naamah, and Makkedah: sixteen cities with their villages.

⁴² Libnah, Ether, Ashan,

⁴³ Jiphtah, Ashnah, Nezib,

⁴⁴ Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah: nine cities with their villages:

⁴⁵ Ekron, with her towns and her villages.

⁴⁶ From Ekron even unto the sea, all that lay near Ashdod, with their villages:

⁴⁷ Ashdod with her towns and her villages, Gaza with her towns and her villages, unto the river of Egypt and the great sea and the border thereof;

⁴⁸ And in the mountains, Shamir, Jattir, Socoh,

⁴⁹ Dannah, Kirjathsannah, which is Debir,

⁵⁰ Anab, Eshtemoh, Anim,

⁵¹ Goshen, Holon, and Giloh: eleven cities with their villages;

⁵² Arab, Dumah, Eshean,

⁵³ Janum, Bethtappuah, Aphekah,

⁵⁴ Humtah, Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, and Zior: nine cities with their villages:

⁵⁵ Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah,

⁵⁶ Jezreel, Jokdeam, Zanoah,

⁵⁷ Cain, Gibeah, and Timnah: ten cities with their villages;

⁵⁸ Halhul, Bethzur, Gedor,

⁵⁹ Maarath, Bethanoth, and Eltekon: six cities with their villages;

⁶⁰ Kirjathbaal, which is Kirjathjearim, and Rabbah: two cities with their villages;

⁶¹ in the wilderness, Betharabah, Middin, Secacah,

⁶² Nibshan, the city of Salt, and Engedi: six cities with their villages.

⁶³ As for the Jebusites who inhabit Jerusalem, the sons of Judah could not drive them out; but the Jebusite remains in Jerusalem with the sons of Judah unto this day.